Proposals

By designing mixed-use buildings within industrial zones, we can provide more space for emerging tech, vertical manufacturing, and creative sectors.

We can adapt defunct space in New York City’s industrial zones into new facilitates suitable for emerging 21st century industries.

By combining a new approach to vertical manufacturing and integrating valuable public space and amenities, multi-modal transit and streetscapes, the Brooklyn Navy Yard is positioned to become a new model of urban industrial campus.

Design commercial buildings that provide modular space for businesses to grow throughout the lifecycle of their development – from seed stage to maturity.

Cities should encourage development models that incentivize the creation of co-located facilities for manufacturing and office space as a way to decentralize working hubs.

In a moment of increased political complexity for immigrant communities in the United States, a certain type of response to protect and support immigrant communities better is also increasing: worker cooperatives.

In the form of a stabilized, community-based, shared living environment, CO-LIVE has the ability to positively address the housing challenges faced by immigrants upon their arrival, while effectively increase housing supply and choices.

How we use public space is personal. Where we decide to sit, play, and congregate, is largely driven by how a space makes us feel and whether we feel welcome. Creating inclusive public spaces means designing spaces that meet the needs of a variety of people.

Immigrant dispersion and suburbanization presents new challenges, as immigrants may be less likely to form critical masses for social support and political power, and small municipalities may be less capable to address immigrant needs.

In almost every locality, the arts are a means for new immigrants to express themselves in a way that is already familiar to them, in a new city that is far from home, and feel ownership, pride and a sense of agency.

Instead of asking what kind of future transportation technology will bring us, we should ask: what kind of city do we want?

Our historic subway stations are our most used public spaces in the city. We should partner with the private sector to give our stations the innovation and investment they need to thrive.

Electric and driverless cars are on the way-it's time to rethink our gas stations as new civic space.

Penn Station is a symbol of our city, yet now stands a neglected opportunity. It should be a shared civic space for us all!

We no longer need Broadway as a street. We should transform it into a linear park—a Green Line running through midtown Manhattan.